The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias; FAR) are the military forces of Cuba. They include Revolutionary Army,...
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The ranks of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces are the military insignia used by the Cuban military. In 1980-1989 Cuba used ranks and insignia based...
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This is a list of the equipment used by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. Jones, Richard D.; Ness, Leland S., eds. (January 27, 2009). Jane's Infantry...
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the Cuban Constitutional Army. Following the Cuban Revolution, the revolutionary military forces was reconstituted as the national army of Cuba by Fidel...
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the Ministry of the FAR, is a Cuban military agency which is the executive body of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. The current Minister of the FAR...
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Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (Spanish: Unidad Ceremonial de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias) is a ceremonial rituals battalion of the Cuban Revolutionary...
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The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces Military Bands Department is a military band service based in Havana, serving the men and women of the Cuban Revolutionary...
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Mobile Brigade of Special Troops (BMTE) is a special forces unit in the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. It is often identified as Military Unit 4895. They...
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The Day of the Cuban Armed Forces is a national holiday in Cuba celebrated annually on December 2 commemorating the landing of the Granma which brought...
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tanks in the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces today as well as American and British designs imported prior to the Cuban Revolution. Cuba originally had...
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of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior. Article 65 of the Cuban Constitution states that "defense of the socialist motherland is every Cuban's greatest...
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any external threat of intervention. Under the command of Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), it was a voluntary group which served as a way to ensure...
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Revolution in 1959, this army was superseded by the current Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. The National Army represented the main means of repression...
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Patrol cap (section Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces)
issue cap in the Cuban Revolutionary Army, and Cuban Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force. American style patrol caps were worn by Cuban soldiers before...
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Territorial Troops Militia (category Paramilitary organizations based in Cuba)
the command of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR). Its creation is recognized as having marked the beginning of Cuba's official embrace of the...
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establishment of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces in 1959 when Fidel Castro took power saw a systematic restructuring of Cuban defence forces, with a focus...
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Máximo Gómez Command Academy (category 1963 establishments in Cuba)
Máximo Gómez Command Academy is a military institution of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. The academy, which is located to the east of Havana, is the...
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2021. "Cuban armed forces and the Soviet military presence" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2009. "Cuban army...
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Cuba and the Cuban government sent two tank brigades that participated in combat operations against the Israeli army. 1975–1991: Regular Cuban forces...
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succeeding Cuban republics. From the 16th to 18th centuries, organized militia companies made up the bulk of Cuba's armed forces. These forces helped maintain...
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congress of the Communist Party of Cuba 1975, which signified the final political solidification of the Cuban revolutionaries' new government. The period encompasses...
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Alpha 66 (redirect from Cuban Liberator Army)
Cuban exiles in the early 1960s and was most active in the late 1970s and 1980s. Its activities declined in the 1980s. Alpha 66 was founded by Cuban exiles...
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The Cuban Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force (Spanish: Defensa Anti-Aérea y Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria) commonly abbreviated to DAAFAR in both Spanish...
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Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (KPRAF), also the Khmer People's Revolutionary Armed Forces were the armed forces of the People's Republic...
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The Cuban Revolutionary Navy (Spanish: Marina de Guerra Revolucionaria) is the navy of Cuba. The Constitutional Navy of Cuba was the navy of Cuba that...
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Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces C-Raf, a human enzyme encoded by the RAF1 gene This disambiguation...
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Escambray rebellion (category Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution)
against Batista's forces. Raúl Castro claimed in a speech in 1970 that the rebellion killed 500 members of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. The death toll...
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Bay of Pigs Invasion (redirect from Invasion of Cuba)
The invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias – FAR) and surrendered...
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The Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces (Spanish: Gobierno Revolucionario de la Fuerza Armada) was a military dictatorship that ruled Peru from...
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Álvaro López Miera (category Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni)
Álvaro López Miera is a Cuban military and political leader and has served as the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba since 15 April 2021....
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